Claims the need to accelerate the adoption of a parliamentary budget
On: Wednesday 1/4/2012 9:26
□ Baghdad / Iyad al-Tamimi
called for parliamentary blocs within the National Alliance, the House of Representatives to speed up the adoption of the budget for the current year 2012, and release of grades, at the time ended meeting of the Council of Representatives yesterday without first reading of the draft general budget of the state. The included speaker of parliament a draft budget
For the year 2012 as the last paragraph in the agenda for the session yesterday.
and called for some parliamentary blocs to cancel the payments of social benefits for the three presidencies, ministries and provinces, as well as increase pensions by 50%. The MP said the bloc Abdul-Hussein Abtan at a press conference in the parliament building with a number MPs from the Bloc, and attended (range): "The mass of citizens calling for parliament approval of the budget 2012 as soon as possible and include allocations grant university students, and release of grades, as well as the formation of the federal service."
and called for mass citizen according to a statement issued by the received (range) a copy of the abolition of social benefits for the three presidencies, ministries and provinces that more than 10 billion dinars, and allocated to support the ration card items and the network of social protection. "
stressed the need "to increase pensions by 50% to provide the amounts required for other differences in oil prices to enable them to live with dignity and dignity, and support of the ration card items quantity and quality, especially for poor families and low income, doubling the salaries of citizens covered by a network of social protection in line with inflation made in commodity prices. "
The Alabtan "the need to cancel the allocation amounts of the integration of militias and disarming of weapons valued at 240 billion dinars and diverted to support covered by a network of social welfare and retirees, and implement the decision of the House of reducing the salaries of the Council of Ministers and the Presidential Council for justice and respect for the opinion of the religious authority and the Iraqi people. "
For its part, called the mass "independents" to reverse their boycott of parliament sessions because of the interests of affected citizens directly nothing to do with the budget Balsjalat political confirmed that the Parliament will vote on the budget, even if the absence of Iraq.
The MP said Samira al-Moussawi told a news conference: The mass of "independents" invites everyone to the harmony so you can pass laws which we desperately need in the next phase, especially laws relating to life citizens as well as activating the role of the supervisory board, which leads to improving government performance and eliminating the phenomena of the administrative and financial corruption, demanding at the same time to speed up the adoption of the federal budget for 2012 and activate the role of provinces in which by giving more powers for the purpose of advancement of the services there.
Musawi said for (range): The budget will be voted on even if absent Iraq, but we hope that the coalition in Iraq was present, especially since the list of some of the observations which must be taken into account.
and Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, on 8 December 2011, the balance of 2012 will not see any increase on the salaries of staff or retired, pointing out that the issue of increases on salaries is the most important files objectionable International Monetary Fund.
The House voted on the budget for 2011 amounting to some 93 trillion dinars deficit of 14 trillion dinars, while the operating expenses 64 trillion dinars, while the investment expenditure 29 trillion dinars, based on the rate of 76.5 dollars per barrel of oil at a rate of 2.0002 million barrels a day, including 100 thousand barrels of the Kurdistan region.
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